Mechanics of solids books

Based on practical problems in mechanical engineering, the author develops in this book the fundamental concepts...  Read More >>

Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state of the art...  Read More >>

The contributions in this book were presented at the sixth international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics...  Read More >>

Usually when the use of fillers is considered, a compromise has to be made between the improved mechanieal properties...  Read More >>

On Fracture Mechanics A major objective of engineering design is the determination of the geometry and dimensions...  Read More >>

The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is a new initiative to promote explicitly researches...  Read More >>

Displacement Let 8 be a 3-dimensional Euclidean space, and let V be the vector space associated with 8. We distinguish...  Read More >>

This book presents the nonlinear theories of continuum thermomechanics. Gibbs brought the view that the ther­ modynamics...  Read More >>

The characterisation of materials and material systems is an essential aspect of materials science. The programme...  Read More >>

This text includes coverage of the technology on solving theoretical and practical problems on solid mechanics,...  Read More >>

A broad array of new engineered materials, with intricate atomic and molecular architecture for sophisticated functional...  Read More >>

The aim of the book is the presentation of the fundamental mathematical and physical concepts of continuum mechanics...  Read More >>

Three subjects of major interest in one textbook: linear elasticity, mechanics of structures in linear isotropic...  Read More >>

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The first kind of vortices are called tied vortices and the second kind of vortices are called free vortices.  Read More >>

This handbook is a collection of elasticity solutions. The solutions have been thoroughly checked and reduced to...  Read More >>

Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Several definitions of the safety factors are given,...  Read More >>

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design...  Read More >>

This is the fifth book of the Kluwer's series Advances in Robot Kine­ matics. The book presents the most recent...  Read More >>

Covers the basic fields of tensor calculus. This book suggests a approach to definition of a tensor in space R3,...  Read More >>

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The complexity of the response of composite materials and the dif?culties in predicting the composite material properties...  Read More >>

Readers learn to predict and control low- and high-dimensional as well as continuous- and discrete-time nonlinear...  Read More >>

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Igor Musevic, Cindy Nieuwkerk and Theo Rasing Since the pioneering work on surface-induced alignment of liquid crystals,...  Read More >>